Lucerne Festival | News Music & Opera https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/tag/lucerne-festival-en Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:47:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Scandal in Switzerland! https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/scandal-in-switzerland Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:47:42 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=12812 Has William Tell’s homeland become the new land of ecology? While the Gstaad Menuhin Festival is committed to the subject of protecting nature by tackling the theme of global change (notably with Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s ‘Music for the Planet’ concert series), it is the Lucerne Festival that has just made headlines. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski was conducting […]

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]]> Has William Tell’s homeland become the new land of ecology? While the Gstaad Menuhin Festival is committed to the subject of protecting nature by tackling the theme of global change (notably with Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s ‘Music for the Planet’ concert series), it is the Lucerne Festival that has just made headlines. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski was conducting a Bruckner symphony on Friday 8 September 2023 when he was interrupted by two young activists from Renovate Switzerland. Despite protests from the audience, Jurowski let them have their say, and then resumed the normal course of the concert, undisturbed. Music and its urgency seem to have become the best vehicles for getting messages across.

 

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]]> The prestigious Lucerne Festival will be held with the theme “Joy” https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/the-prestigious-lucerne-festival-will-be-held-with-the-theme-joy Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:00:21 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=7312 Serious challenger of the Salzburg Festival, the prestigious Lucerne Festival will be held from August 13 to September 20, 2020 with a central theme, “Joy”. This season, Rebecca Saunders is the composer-in-residence and the brilliant Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, the first female conductor artist to be named “Artiste étoile.” BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE. Bernard Haitink, Lucerne Festival […]

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]]> Serious challenger of the Salzburg Festival, the prestigious Lucerne Festival will be held from August 13 to September 20, 2020 with a central theme, “Joy”.

This season, Rebecca Saunders is the composer-in-residence and the brilliant Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, the first female conductor artist to be named “Artiste étoile.”

BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE.

Bernard Haitink, Lucerne Festival 2020 © Stefan Deuber

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